Following the success of IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Celebration Lecture Series (IEEE-SMC-CLS 2009 and 2010 in China), the first UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC-CLS 2013 will be held on 25 March 2013, at University of Ulster Belfast Campus, Northern Ireland, UK, which will be co-located with the UK-Ireland IEEE-SMC 2013 Strategic Workshop on "Understanding the Cyber World: A Rendez-Vous for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Cybernetics" on 26 March 2013. We would like to invite you, your colleagues and research students to participate in this two-day event at no charge to the participants. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

This two-day event will feature key lectures delivered by distinguished scholars who are active in or closely affiliated with the IEEE SMC Society or by other academics who have achieved a high level of recognition from the IEEE.

Celebration Lecture Series (CLS): 25th of March,
2013

Theme - The Making of an
Academic

A number of keynote lectures will be delivered on different topics central to the CLS theme of “The Making of an Academic”: Creative Research; Excellence and Innovation in Teaching; Effective Manuscript Preparation; Personal and Time Management for Young Scientists; Effective Research Presentation;
Building Your Professional Network; and An Overview of Research Funding for Achievement and Impact; together with an update on The State of the IEEE and the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.

The CLS aims to provide expert insight, advice and professional training, as well as an academic forum and networking opportunity to PhD students and early career researchers in their future academic career.

Keynote lectures will be delivered on different topics
central to the workshop theme of “Understanding the Cyber World: a
Rendez-vous for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Cybernetics”: Towards a New Science
of Big Data Analytics,
based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems;
Big Data: From ‘Firehoses’ to ‘Deluges’ and ‘Avalanches’; Grid
Analytics; Combining Compositional and Distributional Semantics;
The Adversarial Relationship between Classifier and Patterns in the
Cyber-World; Towards a Holistic Theory of Pattern Recognition?On the Virtues of Unifying versus Diversifying in Machine Learning;
Generalization, Stability, Robustness, Sensitivity and Noise Control in
Cyber Pattern Analysis. Ample time will be set aside for a panel discussion involving both the
speakers and the audience in the pursuit to identify major challenges to
future research problems in the related areas.